We must remember that even when we are doing good and the right things in God's eyes, trouble can still disturb our peace. The enemy hates it when we are peaceful and feeling secure in the Lord and will sometimes send his minions to shake things up. Hezekiah was reforming his people and doing his best to turn them back to God by tearing down all their high places where they worshipped other gods. Still, there was more that needed reform within them, so they were met with hostility from the Assyrian king, who had previously been an ally of Hezekiah. Sennacherib the Assyrian king sent his men to taunt them by making a mockery of his devotion to God saying, "But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?" (Isaiah 36:7) However, those altars were not God's but were for the fake gods, making them think that the Almighty God wouldn't help them because those altars were gone.
The enemy works in the same way today. When we let go of a persistent sin, even though we thought the temptation was gone, he will use that very thing to make us think we need it, but in reality, it keeps us far from God. That is why we must cling to the Lord, be constant in prayer, and continue to refrain from the sin that enslaves us to the enemy.
We will see in chapter 36 what Isaiah had to do to help the people overcome the Syrian invasion and what God did to answer his prayer.
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